Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:18:15 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: latest Firefox fails on https Message-ID: <20071227101815.GB28854@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <1198708597.11242.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20071226210217.GA25371@freebie.xs4all.nl> <1198708597.11242.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:36:37PM -0500 .. > > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 22:02 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > In the hope I will not make a fool out of myself with this question: > > > > I just brought my laptop to the very latest 8-CURRENT. Worked without a > > hitch. > > > > As a side project I decided to also bring all ports up to date to the > > latest. > > > > One of the ports is Firefox. > > > > Which now gives me the following error message on every https: URL that I > > try: > > > > Unexpected response from server > > Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server. > > > > * Check to make sure your system has the Personal Security Manager > > installed. > > * This might be due to a non-standard configuration on the server. > > > > I now have built from ports: > > firefox-2.0.0.11,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla > > nss-3.11.7 Libraries to support development of security-enabled applic > > > > A somewhat earlier Firefox 2.0.0.x (whatever the prebuilt packages server > > currently carries) I fetched via pkg_add -r gave me the same error message. > > > > Firefox works just fine with normal http servers. > > > > Google gives me lots of "me too" and assorted Linux crud but nothing > > relevant to FreeBSD unfortunately. > > Rebuild devel/nspr, security/nss, then www/firefox, and you should be > fine. Took a while (P3 1.2GHz laptop) but it does not work, same problem still. I see firefox has a dependency on security/nss in its Makefile, the devel/nspr I do not see listed? What makes me suspicious is that the precompiled 8-current package exhibited the same problem. Wilko -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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